The international scientific conference entitled “Ganira Pashayeva and the Turkic World: Literature, Culture, Politics, and the Ideal of Unity” was held under the organization of the Association of Turkish Academics. The conference brought together renowned scholars from 22 countries for an extensive exchange of views on the shared artistic, scholarly and spiritual heritage of the Turkic world.

At the conference the senior researcher of the Department of Folklore and Written Literature of the Institute of Folklore of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS), Doctor of Philosophy in Philology and Associate Professor Shabnam Mammadova made the online presentation entitled “The tradition of storytelling in Turkic epics and its diverse terminological interpretations”.

In her presentation, she spoke about the important role of the storytelling tradition in the oral literature and epic traditions of the Turkic peoples, as well as the terminological variations that this art had acquired across the regions inhabited by different Turkic peoples.

The conference was an important event in strengthening scholarly and cultural ties across the Turkic world, promoting joint academic projects and introducing the rich cultural heritage of the Turkic peoples to the international scholarly community.